User's Manual

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A progress bar at the bottom left shows the total progress for all drives. The
progress for each drive is also shown directly after the drive names in the drive
selection list. Click Cancel to stop the process at any time.
Tip: NTFS is better than FAT
Hard disks can either use the NTFS file system, as used in the most recent
versions of Windows, or the older FAT system that is supported by earlier
Windows versions. Analysis of drives before defragmentation is substantially
faster on NTFS drives. For FAT systems, the user will need to wait significantly
longer. This is just one of several reasons that the old FAT system should be
converted to the modern NTFS system.
The NTFS file system (NTFS = New Technology File System) is a file system
used from Windows NT and its successors up to Vista. It offers an intelligently
devised access protection to file levels, allows flexible management of
privileges, accommodates file sizes above 4 GB, offers automatic error
Select the drives
you wish to
analyze.